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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Rosie take William?
(a) To join a whist game.
(b) To meet her daughter.
(c) To see Ted.
(d) To the horse track.

2. What happens when Ted catches pneumonia?
(a) He returns to Blakestable for his sister to nurse him.
(b) Isabel is frail and unable to care fo him.
(c) Isabel hires Mary-Ann to nurse him.
(d) Isabel contacts William.

3. Where does Isabel accompany Ted to?
(a) New York.
(b) Rome.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Every party to which he is invited.

4. Where do Roy and William meet?
(a) Near Big Ben.
(b) Trafalger Square.
(c) Straford-on-Avon.
(d) Victoria Station.

5. What does William learn from Newton one day?
(a) That Ted has a mistress.
(b) That Ted is dying.
(c) That Rosie is dead.
(d) That Rosie has left Ted for Kemp.

6. What is Amy sure that Ted did not know?
(a) About Ted's brother taking all the money from his parents' estate.
(b) About Rosie's affairs.
(c) That Rosie had been married twice before meeting Ted.
(d) That Rosie talked badly about Ted behind his back.

7. How does Rosie keep in touch with Blackstable?
(a) Through Mary-Ann.
(b) Through Mrs. Ashenben.
(c) Through biweekly visits to her mother in Haversham.
(d) Through the curate.

8. In what type of neighborhood do the Driffields reside?
(a) A lower working-class one that is loud and smelly.
(b) One that is on the edge of the homes of the peerage.
(c) One that had once been respectable but has declined.
(d) An upper middle class, neat and well kept one.

9. What surname does Rosie and George take when they come to America?
(a) Kemper.
(b) Smith.
(c) Dangerfield.
(d) Iggulden.

10. Who does William meet through the Driffields?
(a) Lord George.
(b) Creative people.
(c) Roy Kear.
(d) His future wife.

11. What does William think of as the "crown of literature?"
(a) Drama.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Fiction.
(d) Rhetoric.

12. What does William sense about Ted's affect?
(a) He is becoming surly.
(b) He is unhappy.
(c) He is growing aloof.
(d) He is in love.

13. Who did Rosie think Ted would marry rather than Amy?
(a) No one.
(b) Isabel.
(c) His first girlfriend with whom he has a son.
(d) Mary-Ann.

14. What does William say about Rosie's heart?
(a) It was strong.
(b) It was weak.
(c) It was cold.
(d) It was of gold.

15. What do Roy and Amy deplore?
(a) That Ted had not met Amy sooner.
(b) That Ted treated Rosie so poorly.
(c) That William's letters are all about Rosie.
(d) How common Rosie must have been.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does William meet Rosie one day?

2. What portrait is there that shows a work of Hillier?

3. Why does Amy think it good that Rosie leaves Ted?

4. What does Rosie do as Ted writes at night?

5. What does Ted seem to be doing?

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